Reenforced dump-car construction



Patented July 28, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT "FICE.

WILLIAM E. MOREY, or CHICAGQILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T ROD-GER BALLAST CAR 00.,

or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A

coaronarron or MAINE.

REENFORCED DUMP-CAR CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed m 13,

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, WILLIAM E. MOREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of- Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reenforced Dump- Car Construction, of. which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to reenforced dump car construction.

An object of the present invention is to provide a dump car construction having a pocket for the reception of a laterally extending operating rod, said car being provided with reenforcing means for said pocket whereby the strength of the car is unimpaired.

Further objects will appear as the de scription proceeds.

Referring to the drawings- Figure 1 is a fragmentary View showing a railway dump car in side elevation;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view on an enlarged scale, said view taken along a plane marked by the line 22 of Figure 1; and

Figures 3 and 4 are details of construction.

The numeral indicates one of the side walls of a railway car, said car having the dumping floor portions 11 pivoted to swing about the rod 12, which rod 12 is placed longitudinally of the car. Mounted in parallel relation with the side 10 is the operating rod 13' supported [by members 13, which rod 13 is operatively connected with the dump-ing floor portions 11 by mechanism indicated in part by the chain 14. Said chain 14 is coiled about the rod 13, and for the purpose of providing a pocket for the chain, whereby the rod 13 need not be spaced a great distance from the side 10, a structure is provided which will now be described. Rotary movement of rod 13 will control said dumping floor portions 11.

The wall 10 is provided near its lower side I with a shedding-strip 15 having a flange 15 which may be secured to said side wall, a web 16 mounted at an angle to said flange 15 and a flange 17 which may be mounted in parallel relation with the flange 15. The outer edge of the side wall 10 is provided with the Z bar 18 having the two parallel flanges 19 and 19. The shedding plate 15 and Z bar 18 provide a pocket or recess extending longitudinally of the car 1922. Serial No. 560,531.-

for receiving part of the chain 14. In order to reenforce the'side of the car, the flange 15 of the shedding plate 15 and the flange 19 of Z bar 18 may be connected by reenforcing plates 20, one of which is shown in cross section in Figure 2and two of which are shown in dotted lines in Figure 1. Trusses 21-21 may be provided for strengthening the sides 10 of the car and for supporting Z bars 18, certain of said trusses overlying certain of said reenforcing plates 20. The dimensions of the trusses 2121 may be different at different portions of the length of the car due to the varying stresses which they are called upon to re sist, and the reenforcing plates 20 may take various shapes to conform to said trusses 21-21. The outline of the reenforcing plate 20 through which the section line 22 extends is illustrated in Figure 3. The other reenfo-rcing plate 20 illustrated in Figure 1, that is to say, the left hand reenforcing plate of the two illustrated in said figure has the conformation illustrated in Figure 4. i

The sides of the, car comprise trusses including the usual upper chords and diagonals, the lower chord of the truss being formed in the present instance by the Z bars 18 and shedding strips 15 which are riveted to the Z bars. Owing to the shape of the shedding strips, however, which are bent as described in order to form the pocket, it is possible that under strain the shedding strip may become distorted and fail to transmit the load effectively to the lower chord. For the purpose of providing a construction at this point which will 'eflectively transmit'the load I connect the Z bar with the shedding strip by the plates 20, thus causing the chord composed of the Z bar and the shedding strip to act as a unit.

The reenforcing plates 20 do not interfere with the operation of the rod 13 and provide the requisite strength for preventing distortion of the shedding plate 15 and for transmitting the load to the bottom chord. The provision of the pocket for receiving the inner side of the chain 14, therefore, does not weaken the sides of the car.

One embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail. Many modifications will occur to those skilled in the art. It is intended in this patent to cover form a longitudinally extending outwardly all such modifications that fall Within the, scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. 7

I claim:

1. A dump car having a side, said side being provided With longitudinal cooperating angular members formed to provide an outwardly opening pocket, said pocket being adapted toreceive part of a dump door operating chain, reenforcingmembers connected to said angular members across the open face of said pocket; and truss members for said side mounted upon said reenforcing members.

2. A dump car comprising a side having angular members thereon. cooperating to opening pocket adapted to receive part of a dump door operating member, and spaced reenforcing means connected across said pocket to prevent distortion of said pocket, and truss members for said side overlaying said reenforcing members.

3. A dump car having a side, said side being provided with a shedding strip of upon said reenforcing members.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois,- this 10th day of May, 1922. l I

- WILLIAM E. Money. 

